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[1747] Mor 7602      
Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION XI.

Justices of Justices of Peace.
Subject_3 SECT. I.

Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace.

Ramsay
 v.
Adderton

Date: 17 July 1747
Case No. No 320.

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A complaint against a custom house officer, for an improper seizure of foreign spirits, being brought before the justices, who decerned for restitution of the seizure, with a sum for expenses, the cause was advocated; and the Lords found, that the justices had no jurisdiction in this case, that it was incompetent before the Court of Session, and only cognizable in the Court of Exchequer.

 Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 359. Kilkerran.

*** This case is No 307. p. 7590.

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